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Very relevant to distribution of entertainment [...]

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Jeremiah Owyang is now doing a weekly summary of the social networking space. I can delete about 30 newsfeeds now.

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Radiohead fans old and new have reason to be happier than usual today. The new album is out, and I’m sure you know that you can name your price for the download. I’ve got the serious Sennheiser headphones on and 15 Step and Nude and are blowing me away, as in hairs on my neck [...]

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I wonder which startup text messaging services will start to get pressure from telcom operators?
Operators get, on average, 20 percent of their revenue from text messaging, according to Van Veen. In 2010 about 2.3 trillion text messages will be sent worldwide, generating $72.5 billion for the operators, according to forecasts released last year by [...]

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Busy week. Jury duty, lots of client work and to top it off I’m upgrading to Wordpress 2.3 and getting tags working again.  New template is  installed, need to figure out what’s going in the sidebars to balance them out. It’s times like this I wish I was a designer.

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I am happy today. Ecstatic, even. The best band in the world is releasing a new record in 9 days. You can get it for free, or $12, or $8,700, pay whatever you like. The NY Times has more, great comments too:
I paid $7 for it this morning and I haven’t liked them since Kid [...]

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Cardspace: Behind The Code is a new internal Microsoft blog I heard about from Kim Cameron. Any news is good news about Cardspace, but it kills me to see, after several years, that all the Cardspace can talk about in their initial posts are SSL certificates and other geekdom. Where is the consumer and business [...]

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Perusing Techmeme this morning I read that Virtual Ubiquity was bought by Adobe.  VU created Buzzword, a web-based word processor that I first saw at Webinnovators earlier this year and though it looked pretty slick.
Congrats to the Virtual Ubiquity team and good luck to Adobe, the webtop marketplace is chock full of writing applications. I’m [...]

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Catch up on all things virtual with the Metaverse Roadmap, great resource for those of you into SecondLife.

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Google Facebook clone
Google does Second Life
Not a clone, but Google is going to roll out an advertising platform that puts a crowdsourcing twist on ad targeting.

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